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Inner Peace Press

Northern Shores/Southern Borders

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August, 1968. Fifteen-year-old preacher’s kid leaves her small Midwestern town (where pronouncing “tortilla” correctly meant you were bilingual, and eating one made you multicultural) to spend three weeks in Saltillo, Mexico, on a language-study cultural immersion stay. A taste of chili peppers, machismo, and mariachi not only improved her vocabulary, but led her to enroll in a college semester in Spain with its Moorish palaces, historical conquistadores, and life under the rule of a dictator. But it was the day Lorena entered the classroom with her Guatemalan newspaper reporting of Mayan massacres, United States military intervention, and fleeing refugees that radically shifted her emerging world view. The once carefree teenaged adventurer seeking bilingual fluency was unknowingly drawn into a lifelong journey as a “code-switching” professor of Spanish and Latin American Studies, an on-call translator, community activist, and human rights advocate.

More than a memoir, 
Northern Shores/ Southern Borders takes the readers to places they do not know and introduces the people belonging to the faces inhabiting them. Spanish is the thread weaving together injured migrant workers, international exchange students’ attempts at acclimation to north woods life, and the seldom told story of Central American refugees channeled through the 1980s Overground Railroad from Texas detention centers, through Minnesota, to crossing into Canada.
Spanish – the bridge between cultures; a connector of people, a kaleidoscope of perspectives, enriching each experience. New revelations offered expanded options for life enhancing blends and deeper reflections on ones’ own foundations.

“Gifts await you. . . many just outside your comfort zones.” ~ Janet Kurtz

 

6x9 inches
271 pages
paperback
ISBN 978-1733942386

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